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Key Terms in US History

Sarah Rehman

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3.The application of laws such as “survival of the fittest” to justify imperialism and racism. (2 Words)
5.This was the first significant law restricting immigration from China. (3 Words)
7.The first American political party which supported a strong central government and promoted the ratification of the Constitution.
8.This act exempted labor unions from being called trusts, legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members. (3 Words)
12.Opened up foreign markets and reduced barriers to US exportation and importation of goods. (3 Words)
15.Originally proposed by President Wilson, it created an assembly of nations with aim of promoting long-lasting world peace, a predecessor of the United Nations. (3 Words)
16.An African American civil rights group which promoted self-defense and a more militant style of protest. (2 Words)
19.Written by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, freeing slaves in the South, which ultimately helped preserve the Union. (2 Words)
20.Describes the trade pattern between Africa, New England, and Great Britain during the early colonial period. (2 Words)
21.Document in which the US colonists listed their grievances to the British monarchy and demanded autonomy. (3 Words)
22.Author of Silent Spring, a book which promoted a need for environmental change. (2 Words)
30.Forced relocation, incarceration, and mistreatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. (2 Words)
31.This weapon’s invention changed the course of WWII and devastated Japan. (2 Words)
33.The primary attitude towards women’s roles circa the American Revolution, encouraging virtue that could be passed on to children. (2 Words)
35.This law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (1964). (3 Words)
37.President Jefferson’s three million dollar purchase of territory west of the Mississippi River from France. (2 Words)
39.War between the US and Spain sparked by yellow journalism and ending in Cuba’s independence. (2 Words)
40.US policy of free-enterprise, or “hands-off”, capitalism free from government intervention.
41.President FDR’s federal plan for reversing the Great Depression, which included many programs including Social Security. (2 Words)
42.Initials of president who promoted the Great Society and was president during the time of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
43.Written by Betty Friedan, it helped lead to a second wave of feminism in the US. (2 Words)
44.A statement of goals among the Allied Powers during World War II released by Winston Churchill and FDR. (2 Words)
45.Relaxation of tensions between the US and the Soviet Union, and China during the Cold War.
46.Policy made in 1787, which created a process for the creation of new states in the US. (2 Words)
47.Social structure in which a set of rigid social categories determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society. (2 Words)
48.Opposed American colonization of territory such as the Philippines, for they saw it as despotism and against American morals.
49.A literary movement started by a group of authors exploring American culture in the post-World War II. (2 Words)
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1.A period in the late 19th century marred by great social and economic corruption as well as industrial and urban growth. (2 Words)
2.US supported South Korea while China and USSR supported North Korea in a war over communism that ended in a stalemate. (2 Words)
3.A Protestant religious revival movement in the US in the early nineteenth century. (3 Words)
4.Document which replaced the Articles of Confederation and fixed many of its shortcomings.
6.Initial constitution of newly-formed USA which created a weak federal government with most of the power reserved for the states. (3 Words)
9.Court case which helped desegregate US public schools by stating that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. (3 Words)
10.This naval base was bombed by the Japanese during World War II and helped lead to US entering the war. (2 Words)
11.Expeditionary branch of the US Army that fought in France during WWI. (3 Words)
13.George Kennan’s policy during the Cold War of restraining the spread of communism abroad.
14.This election ended in Abraham Lincoln’s victory and eventually led to the secession of several Southern states. (3 Words)
16.The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution which provided more individual liberties. (3 Words)
17.Towns that would pop up near mining areas that were practically built overnight.
18.A new form of music which emerged during the “Roaring Twenties” primarily from African American communities but gained popularity throughout.
23.This compromise was meant to ease tensions between the North and South over slavery by admitting California as a free state and Texas as a slave state after the Mexican-American War. (3 Words)
24.Used popular sovereignty to decide whether the states of Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free but only exacerbated tensions and led to Bleeding Kansas. (2 Words)
25.Italy, Germany, and Japan’s pact during WWII opposing the Allied Powers. (2 Words)
26.A period of great cultural, social,artistic, and literary development among African Americans, centered in Harlem, between the end of World War I and the mid-1930s. (2 Words)
27.Political tension between the US and USSR for over forty years due to communism. (2 Words)
28.The movement in opposition to slavery which developed prominence primarily during the mid-19th Century.
29.Initials of president who created the New Deal and was the only president to be elected four times.
32.Dilemma between President Andrew Jackson and South Carolina legislature over the federal tariff of 1832. (2 Words)
34.First created by Alexander Hamilton, this was meant to create financial stability in the federal government. (2 Words)
36.Henry Clay’s plan which involved a protective tariff, a new Federal Bank, and internal improvements. (2 Words)
38.Political party which promoted power of the working class and farmers (also known as People’s Party).

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